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41) Wish you well
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Following a family tragedy, siblings Lou and Oz must leave New York and adjust to life in the Virginia mountains—but just as the farm begins to feel like home, they'll have to defend it from a dark threat in this New York Times bestselling coming-of-age story.
Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes—and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must...
Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes—and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must...
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Series
Boxcar children volume 155
Language
English
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Description
"The Boxcar Children are helping a friend find out more about their family's history. But what they find is a mystery going back generations! Can the Aldens help their friend unlock secrets of the past--and present?" --
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Series
EllRay Jakes series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Third-grader EllRay, a "shrimpy, goof-up kid," discovers magic all around him when he and his schoolmates participate in the Oak Glen Primary School talent show and work together on a wedding shower gift for their teacher.
45) Between, Georgia
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Language
English
Description
Nonny Frett understands the meanings of "rock" and "hard place" better than any woman ever born. She's got two mothers, "one Deaf-blind and the other four baby steps from flat crazy." She's got two men: her husband, who's easing out the back door; and her best friend, who's laying siege to her heart in her front yard. She has a job that holds her in the city, and she's addicted to a little girl who's stuck deep in the country. And she has two families;...
47) Hannah's hope
Author
Series
Red gloves series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
"A fifteen-year-old girl longs for the father she never knew"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Series
Boxcar Children graphic novels volume 3
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
When George H. W. Bush asked Doro to write this memoir, she contacted hundreds of his friends and associates; conducted scores of interviews with dignitaries including Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, and General Colin Powell; tapped the memories of family members, including her mother, her four brothers, and of course, her father himself; and collected information from the former president's never-before-released files. "Now for the first time, a...
50) The closers
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Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Detective Harry Bosch joins LA's elite Open/Unsolved Unit to help piece together the mysterious death of a teenage girl.
He walked away from the job three years ago. But Harry Bosch cannot resist the call to join the elite Open/Unsolved Unit. His mission: solve murders whose investigations were flawed, stalled, or abandoned to L.A.'s tides of crime. With some people openly rooting for his...
He walked away from the job three years ago. But Harry Bosch cannot resist the call to join the elite Open/Unsolved Unit. His mission: solve murders whose investigations were flawed, stalled, or abandoned to L.A.'s tides of crime. With some people openly rooting for his...
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Language
English
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Description
A historian's fascinating account of two centuries in the lives of the powerful Despensers, famed for tragedy and scandal in medieval England.
The Despensers were a baronial English family who rose to great prominence in the reign of Edward II (1307-27) when Hugh Despenser the Younger became the king's chamberlain, favorite, and perhaps, lover. He and his father Hugh the Elder wielded great influence, and Hugh the Younger's greed and tyranny brought...
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Series
Boxcar children volume 154
Language
English
Description
When the Alden siblings go to Camp Survival to learn all about living in nature, they must find their own way when their guide leaves them alone on a trail.
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Language
English
Description
Will the ties that bound these three families for generations finally tear them apart? New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky's classic novel Twilight Whispers now available as an e-book for the first time.
Linked for years through friendship and intermarriage, the Warren and Whyte families find their charmed world is marred when Mark Whyte and his wife Deborah Warren are found murdered. Police detective
55) Cage of stars
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The author of The Deep End of the Ocean delivers a compelling, emotionally charged tale of tragedy, revenge, and redemption. Twelve-year-old Veronica Swan's idyllic life in a close-knit Mormon community is shattered when her two younger sisters are brutally murdered. Although her parents find the strength to forgive the deranged killer, Scott Early, Veronica cannot do the same. Years later, she sets out alone to avenge her sisters' deaths,...
56) Mystery ranch
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tells the inspirational true story of Kurt Warner, who went from a stockboy at a grocery store to a two-time NFL MVP, Super Bowl champion, and Hall of Fame quarterback. The film centers on Warner's unique story and years of challenges and setbacks that could have derailed his aspirations to become an NFL player, but just when his dreams seemed all but out of reach, it is only with the support of his wife, Brenda and the encouragement of his family,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
"This famous children's story concerns Mary Lennox , a recently-orphaned little girl who's sent to live in her uncle's oppressive house on the Yorkshire moors. Still mourning the death of his wife, the bitter man often leaves Mary in the servants' care. At first spoiled and unruly, the child begins to change when she discovers her dead aunt's secret garden. She also discovers her young cousin, who has become bedridden because he believes he's deformed,...
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Language
English
Description
Greyhill, Virginia is a refuge of old money, old mansions, and old-fashioned ideas about who belongs and who doesn't. When Bess Warner arrives in town with her husband Cole and their kids, they'll be living across from his mother, and taking over the family's inn-keeping business. Bess lost her White House job under a cloud of scandal. She gets an opportunity to write an article for the Washington Post's lifestyle supplement, interviewing Susannah...
60) The iron giant
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Hogarth Hughes just rescued an enormous robot that fell from the stars to Earth. Now young Hogarth has one very big friend and an even bigger problem: how do you keep a 50-foot-tall, steel-eating giant a secret?